June 13, 2004

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - E3 photos- before you ask...

I am sure some questions will surface about this album so here's a quick preemptive strike of answers:

Q: "You used your Fuji F700. I thought you bought an F710.. is the F700 better?"

A: No, I just didn't have the F710 by the time E3 hit. The camera hadn't arrived from Japan yet, but I did get it at the end of the week.

Q: "Hmm no Xbox booth shots?"

A: No, I actually didn't go to the Xbox booth. Yeah I should have gone, but I didn't so... I didn't expect to see anything that woudl really catch my eye and from what I heard, so it is.

Q: "No pictures of the Nintendo DS?"

A: Nintendo had it only in a room, you have to make this big ass 1 hour row to get in and I didn't feel like it.

Q: "That PSP in yellow looks kinda bland and not so nice.. how come you were raving about it?"

A: You need to see the one in black :-)

Q: "Is that true? You went to see the Phantom?"

A: Yes, I did. I was curious enough to see what was going on. So there you go, three Phantom booth shots.

Q: "Did you go to the Nvidia booth?"

A: I skipped on my mandatory Nvidia worship.. It just didn't occur to me they would have a big booth.. they were apparently showing some nice 3d "inside your TV" screen technology...

Q: "And what about the Sony E3 party?"

A: Believe it or not, the experience of driving into E3's LA that morning was so traumatic in my psyche (how does a 40 minute "round 1 big block in your car w/ traffic only to realize there's no parking there" sound to you?), I was so tired.. that I decided to give my invitation away to one of my co-workers, which he gladly took on. The thought of going back to LA and dive was too much to bear.

And I felt a bit blah the next day because everybody was talking about how great the party was and the view- apparently Sony changed their location for this year. That being said, if you have been to one Sony party, that may be enough (they are good, but it's the Disneland - I have seen this already - feeling).

Unless of course you love drinking. I have concluded the Sony Parties are engineered by design to make everyone drunk.